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The UNEP magazine for youth in English, French, Spanish language. Did You Know Every dollar spent restoring degraded forests can result in $30 in economic benefits. ‘Forests precede civilization,’ it is said, ‘deserts follow’. It has been so since humanity first settled down from a nomadic life. More than 3,000 years ago, Gilgamesh – the world’s first ever written story …

The ITTO Tropical Forest Update is published quarterly in English, French and Spanish. ITTO is an intergovernmental organization promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its members represent about 80% of the world's tropical forests and 90% of the global tropical timber trade.

Global: the international briefing is a new, editorially independent magazine commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat, and launched at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009. Balancing the expertise of global leaders, the insights of the world’s foremost writers and thinkers and the real life experiences of ‘ordinary’ citizens, Global aims to…

Europe’s soil resources are being lost and degraded as a result of the negative effects of development of economic sectors, including agriculture, households, industry, transport and tourism, as well as climate change and land-use change. The degree of soil degradation varies considerably from country to country, but the vulnerability of the region is evident and estimated to be increasing. In…

There is a widespread consensus that the pressing issues of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) are inadequately addressed in today’s political agenda at the global, regional and national levels. It is therefore of vital importance to raise awareness on the issues, not only on the negative impacts of DLDD in terms of socio-economic development, but also on the opportunities that…

Drylands are complex social-ecological systems, characterized by non-linearity of causation, complex feedback loops within and between the many different social, ecological, and economic entities, and potential of regime shifts to alternative stable states as a result of thresholds. As such, dryland management faces a high level of uncertainty and unpredictability.  To strengthen the…